The Plutarch Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Aemilius Paullus
12 Jun 2024
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Send a textFull Show NotesGreek Parallel - TimoleonImportant PeoplePerseus - A tyrannical Macedonian leader who acts as a foil to Aemilius's virt...
Titus Flamininus
11 Apr 2024
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Send a textFull Show Notes - https://plutarch.life/titus-flamininus/Greek Parallel - PhilopoemenImportant PeoplePhilip V - The second-to-last Macedoni...
Philopoemen - The Last of the Greeks
12 Mar 2024
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Send a textFull Show NotesRoman Parallel – Titus FlamininusImportant PeopleEpaminondas – A personal hero of Philopoemen’s; he can imitate him in...
Cleomenes
15 Feb 2024
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Send a textFull Show Notes for Plutarch's Life of CleomenesRoman Parallel - Tiberius GracchusImportant PeopleAratus - The same Aratus from the la...
Agis
11 Jan 2024
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Send a textImportant PeopleLycurgus - ancient lawgiver, whose biography Plutarch also wrote, and to whom everyone refers constantly in this life as th...
Marcellus and Pelopidas Compared
22 Dec 2023
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Send a textPelopidas Show NotesMarcellus Show NotesHow do these two hasty generals compare? Who had the greater victories? Who had the greater flaws? ...
Marcellus
11 Dec 2023
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Send a textMarcellus - Rome's Sword Against HannibalParallel - PelopidasImportant PeopleArchimedes (sections 15-17; 19)Important PlacesNola - A s...
Comparison - Fabius and Pericles
22 Nov 2023
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Fabius Maximus
11 Nov 2023
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Send a textFull Show Notes: https://plutarch.life/fabiusGreek Parallel - PericlesImportant PeopleTerentius Varro - Mastermind of Cannae, survivor of t...
Camillus
11 Oct 2023
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Send a textFull Show Notes for Camillus - Noble Roman DictatorGreek Parallel - ThemistoclesNo Extant Parallel Essay - :(Important PeopleBrennus - Gall...
Comparison - Coriolanus and Alcibiades
22 Sep 2023
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Send a textSo how do Coriolanus and Alcibiades actually compare? One seems like an angry fireball of revenge, the other a self-serving but talented ch...
Coriolanus
11 Sep 2023
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Send a texthttps://plutarch.life/coriolanusGreek Parallel - AlcibiadesImportant PeopleVolumnia - Coriolanus’s mother and, because his father died yo...
Pyrrhus - Episode 2
11 Feb 2023
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Send a textplutarch.life/pyrrhusPyrrhus, tempted to fight in the old Homeric style of one on one, strikes me as a man born in the wrong era. With the ...
Pyrrhus
11 Jan 2023
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Send a textRoman Parallel - Marius (157-86 BC)Important PeopleDemetrius (337-283) - Neighbor and even, for a time, brother-in-law. Son of Antigonus I ...
Demetrius
11 Dec 2022
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Send a textFull Show Notes Available at https://plutarch.life/demetriusRoman Parallel: Mark Antony (83-30 BC)Season 4 is brought to you by Hackett Pub...
Phocion
11 Nov 2022
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Send a textFull Show Notes Available at https://plutarch.life/phocionSeason 4 is brought to you by Hackett Publishing - Use the coupon code PLUTARCH f...
Eumenes
11 Oct 2022
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Send a textFull Show Notes Available at https://plutarch.life/eumenesSeason 4 is brought to you by Hackett Publishing - Use the coupon code PLUTARCH f...
Alexander the Great Part 2
11 Sep 2022
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Send a textCheck out what I'm up to this summer and fall and see if you can learn some Greek and Latin with me.Full Show Notes Available at https...
Alexander
11 Aug 2022
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Send a textCheck out what I'm up to this summer and fall and see if you can learn some Greek and Latin with me.Full Show Notes Available at https...
Timoleon
11 Jul 2022
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Send a textCheck out what I'm up to this summer and fall and see if you can learn some Greek and Latin with me. Full Show Notes Available at http...
Dion
11 Jun 2022
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Send a textCheck out what I'm up to this summer and fall and see if you can learn some Greek and Latin with me.Full show notes available at https...
Pelopidas
11 Feb 2022
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Send a textHuman sacrifice, debauched tyrants, and The Sacred Band of Thebes are all woven together in Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas, friend of Ep...
Agesilaus
11 Jan 2022
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Send a textFull Show Notes: https://plutarch.life/agesilausImportant PeopleAgis II - The Spartan king and older brother of Agesilaus who led Sparta du...
Lysander
11 Oct 2021
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Send a textThis wily Spartan commander defeated Athens, and his authority even eclipses that of the Spartan kings. Did Lysander corrupt the Spartans w...
Alcibiades
11 Sep 2021
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Send a textAlcibiades fought and strategized for Athens, Sparta, Persia, Athens (again), and Thrace, proving that he fought the entire time only for h...
Nicias
12 Aug 2021
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Send a textNicias helps us understand why losers are still worth studying. Like Cassandra, he prophesied for the Athenian people that they could not d...
Pericles
11 Jul 2021
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Send a textCheck out the full show notes here.Pericles brought Athens to its peak, but ended his own life in a plague at the beginning of a long war w...
Cimon
11 Jun 2021
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Send a textObscure and under-rated, Cimon gives us a personal look at the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, also called the Pentecontae...
Themistocles
11 May 2021
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Send a textThemistocles saved Athens in its darkest hour, yet he dies in the Persian empire, the inveterate enemy of Athens. Is Themistocles a patriot...
Lessons from the Lawgivers
29 Apr 2021
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Send a textWe're wrapping season 2 with a bonus episode looking back at Plutarch's Parallels. We discuss the six biographies of the men who ...
Publicola
11 Apr 2021
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Send a textValerius Publius, aka Publicola, topples the tyrant Tarquin with Brutus and founds the Republic on better justice than the Roman kings had ...
Numa
11 Mar 2021
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Send a textIt is the happy fate of all good and just men to be praised more after they are dead than when they livedPlutarch, Life of Numa 22Parallel ...
Agoge - Lycurgus Part 2
11 Feb 2021
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Send a textThe Agōgē (ἀγωγή) [16-19]Those Laconic Spartans [19-21]Military Maneuvers [22-24]Education never stops [24-25Blessing of scholēF...
Lycurgus
11 Jan 2021
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Send a textLycurgus was once asked why Sparta had no defensive wall around its perimeter. He responded, "A city is well-fortified with a wall of ...
Romulus
11 Dec 2020
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Send a textParallel - TheseusOrigin Stories Rome: What's in a name?From Aeneas to Alba LongaRomulus and Remus: ChildhoodLeft to die by a riverWo...
Theseus
11 Nov 2020
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Send a textAlthough Theseus never actually existed, Plutarch, in documenting his life, wants to cull important lessons for Greeks and Romans. Just as ...
Cicero
11 Oct 2020
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Send a textWe are not born for ourselves alone; a part of us is claimed by our nation, another part by our friends. De Officiis, I.22Parallel - Demost...
Cato the Elder
11 Sep 2020
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Send a textWise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the success...
Demosthenes
11 Aug 2020
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Send a textῥᾷστον ἁπάντων ἐστὶν αὑτὸν ἐξαπατῆσαι: ὃ γὰρ βούλεται, τοῦθ᾽ ἕκαστος...
Aristides
27 Jul 2020
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Send a textAristides acts as a great introduction to the wars that made Athens great, the defensive wars against the Persian invaders, occurring betwe...
Solon
27 Jul 2020
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Send a textSolon was not only the wisest man to be found in Athens, but the most profound political genius of antiquity; and the easy, bloodless, and ...
Why Read Plutarch?
27 Jul 2020
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Send a textIn this podcast, I introduce you to Plutarch, the man and the biographer. We answer questions like: Who was Plutarch? An ancient biograp...